To change the ownership of an application (created with Applications-By-Forms or Vision) from any current owner to any new owner, use the copyapp command.

The command syntax has two forms: copyapp out and copyapp in. To change the ownership, you issue the first form of the command under the current ownership, and the second form under the new ownership.

Assume the user john wants to transfer ownership of the application named app1 in the database mydb to the user dba. The following commands, entered at the operating system prompt, accomplish this, using the default intermediate text file and the current working directory:

At this point, there are two copies of the application, one owned by the user john and the other owned by the user dba. In the usual case, John’s application is no longer needed and can be removed using Vision or Applications-By-Forms.

For a complete description of the flags and parameters for this command, see the copyapp entry in the Command Reference Guide.